Issue Notes

Distributed to newstands in May 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The stories in this issue all bear the logo reading "A Tale of Mystery to Hold You Spellbound!" used by the cancelled Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) perhaps indicating that this was built on an unpublished pre-implosion issue.

Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

A thief trying to rob a reclusive scientist finds him in a room with two doors. The scientist tells him if he leaves through the wrong door he will be trapped in a shadow world of strange creatures so the criminal decides to wait until someone else enters by one of the doors so that he knows which one leads back to the ordinary world.

A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. It turns out that there was a nuclear sub under his yacht at the time.

A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy. Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him, until he finds himself trapped on a boat made of the tree out at sea.

A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. The actor only scratches himself, however, and when the stagehand becomes trapped he fails to free himself in time armed with merely a rubber dagger.